LAWS of' new HAMPSHIRE 



RELATING TO 



COMPILED FROM PUBLIC STATUTES AND SESSION 
LAWS OF 1591, 1593, 1595, 1597, 1599, 1901, 1903. 




CONCORD, N. H.: 

Ira C. Evans Co., Printers. 

1903- 



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CONTENTS. 



Page. Chapter. 

School Money 5 88 

School Districts 8 89 

Meetings and Officers of School Dis- 
tricts 15 90 

schoolhouses. 21 9i 

School Board, Teachers and Truant 

Officers 26 92 

Scholars 34 93 

Superintendent of Public Instruction. 41 94 

New Hampshire State Normal School. . . 44 95 

Special I,aws Passed January Session, 

1891 47 

Special I,aws Passed January Session, 

1893 48 

Special Laws Passed January Session, 

1895 " 50, 51. 52 

Special I^aws Passed January Session, 

1897 53, 54 

Special I^aws Passed January Session, 

1899 • 54, 61 

Amendment to Session I^aws of 1899 57 

Special Laws Passed January Session, 

1901.... 57,58 

Town Clerks, Chapter 43, Public Stat- 
utes 62 



NEW HAMPSHIRE 

SCHOOL LAWS. 



CHAPTER S8. 

SCHOOL MONEY. 

Section 

1. School tax, amount and assessment of. * 

2. Town may raise additional money. 

3. School money, how appropriated. 

4. How assigned to districts. 

5. Ward's tax, where assigned. 

6. Neglect to assess, assign, etc. ; penalty. 

7. Neglect to apply according to law ; penalty. 

8. District may raise additional money. 

9. Iviterary fund, what so termed. 

10. How distributed to towns, etc.^ annually. 

11. Unincorporated places, when to receive. 

12. I^iterary fund, how expended. 

13. Misapplication of; penalty. 

14. What part of dog tax applied to support of schools. 

Section 1. \^As amended hy chapter 92, Ses- 
sion Laivs o/lOOl.] The selectmen in each town 
shall assess annually, upon the polls and ratable 
estate taxable therein, a sum to be computed at 
the rate of six hundred dollars for every dollar of 
the public taxes apportioned to such town, and so 
for a greater or less sum. 



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Sect. 2. The town may raise a sum exceediug- 
the aiuount aforesaid, which shall be assessed in 
the saiiie niauiier. 

Sp:ct. 3. The sums so raised shall be appro- 
priated to the sole purpose of maintaining public 
schools within the town for teaching reading, writ- 
ing, English grammar, arithmetic, geography and 
such other branches as are adapted to the advance- 
ment of the schools, including the purchase of fuel 
and other supplies, the making of occasional re- 
pairs upon schoolhouses, appurtenances, and furni- 
ture, and the conveyance of scholars to and froin 
school as provided by law. 

Sect. 4. The selectmen shall assign to each 
district a proportion of such money, according to 
the valuation of the district for the year, or in such 
other manner as the town, at tlie annual meeting, 
shall direct, and shall pay over the same to the 
school board of the district. 

Sect. 5. When a guardian and ward reside in 
the same town, the Selectmen shall assign the tax 
assessed upon the ward's personal property to the 
school district in which the ward lives and has his 
home. 

Sect. G. If the selectmen of any town neglect 
to assess, assign, or pay over the school money as 
aforesaid, they shall pay for each neglect a sum 
equal to that so neglected to be assessed, assigned, 
or paid over, to be recovered by action of debt, in 
the name and for the use of the district, by the 
school board. 

Sect. 7. If the money so assigned and paid 
over to the school board of any district is not 



expended by them according to law, they shall be 
fined not exceeding twice the sum so unexpended 
or not legally expended, for the use of the district. 

Skct. 8. Any district may raise money for the 
support of schools in addition to the sum required 
by law, which shall be assessed, collected and paid 
over to the district as other school taxes. 

Skct. 9. All taxes collected by the state upon 
the deposits, stock, and attending accumulations 
of depositors and stockholders of savings banks, 
trust companies, loan and trust companies, loan 
and banking companies, building and loan asso- 
ciations, and other similar corporations, who do 
not reside in this state, or whose residence is un- 
knowi], shall be known as the "literary fund." 

Skct. 10. The state treasurer shall assign and 
distribute, in November of each year, the literary 
fund among the towns and places in proportion to 
the number of scholars not less than five years of 
age who shall, by the last reports of the school 
boards returned to the superintendent of public 
instruction, appear to have attended the public 
schools in such towns and places not less than two 
weeks within that year. 

Skct. 11. No unincorporated place shall receive 
its portion until a treasurer or school agent shall 
have been chosen to receive and appropriate the 
same as required by law. 

Skct. 12. The portion of the literary fund so 
received by any town or place shall be assigned to 
the districts as other school money, and shall be 
applied to the maintenance of the public schools 
during the current year ; one fifth part thereof" 
may be applied by the school board to the purchase 



of blackboards, dictionaries, maps, charts, and 
school apparatus. 

Skct. 13. If any town or incorporated place or 
the agent of any unincorporated place shall apply 
any money so received to any other purpose, the 
town, place, or agent so offending shall refund to 
the state treasury double the sum so misapplied. 

Sect. 14. All money arising from the taxation 
and licensing of dogs, remaining in the treasury 
of any town or city on the first day of April, an- 
nually, which is not due to holders of orders given 
for loss of or damages to domestic animals by dogs, 
shall be applied to the support of the public 
schools, and shall be assigned to the districts as 
other school money. 



CHAPTER 89. 
SCHOOL DISTRICTS. 

Section 

1. Kach town a school district. 

2. When presumed to be legall3' organized ; powers of. 

3. May raise money, for what purposes. 

4. May hire money, how much ; and when payable. 

5. Selectmen to assess tax to pay same, when. 

6. Persons and property, where taxed. 

7. New invoice made, when. 

8. Non-resident taxes assessed after July i, when and 

how collected. 

9. Districts may have high schools. ■ 

10. Adjoining districts may contract to maintain schools 
jointly. 



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ir. Districts may contract with academies, etc., to furnish 
instruction to scholars. 

12. Non-resident scholars, how admitted to schools. 

13. Joint districts, how to share in school money. 

14. How dissolved and united to town districts. 

15. Town district to take possession of school property in 

such case. 

16. Rights in property, how equalized. 

17. Selectmen to apportion property among parts of dis- 

solved districts in two or more towns. 

18. Referee to be appointed in case selectmen fail to ap- 

portion. 

19. Notice in such case before appointment of referee. 

20. Such notice, how served. 

21. Referee to give notice of hearing. 

22. Tax to adjust apportionment, how assessed. 

23. Town district to lake property and assess tax in rela- 

tion thereto. 

24. Dissolved districts to continue, for what purposes. 

25. Income of trust funds, how used. 

26. Meetings of dissolved districts. 

27. Preservation of district records. 

Section 1. Each town shall constitute a single 
district for school purposes ; provided, howecer, 
that districts organized under special acts of the 
legislature niaj' retain their present organization. 

Sect. 2. School districts that have exercised, 
the privileges of a district for a year shall be 
presumed to be legally oi'ganized ; and all districts 
legally organized shall be corporations, with power 
to sue and be sued, to hold and dispose of real 
and personal property for the use of the schools 
therein, and to make liecessary contracts relating 
thereto. 



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Sect. 3. School districts may raise money to 
procure land for schoolhoiise lots, and for the en- 
largement of existing lots ; to build, purchase, 
rent, repair, or remove schoolhouses and outbuild- 
ings; to procure insurance; to plant and care for 
shade and ornamental trees upon schoolhouse 
lots ; to provide suitable furniture, books, maps, 
charts, apparatus, and conveniences for schools ; 
and to pay debts. 

Sect. 4. School districts may hire money for 
building schoolhouses, not exceeding four-fifths of 
the cost thereof, which shall be payable within 
five years, in equal proportions, with the interest. 

Sect. 5. The selectmen, upon application of 
the creditor and receipt of copies of the vote and 
note of the district, may, in each annual tax, assess 
upon the district one fifth of such debt and the 
interest, and shall cause the same to be collected 
and paid to the town treasurer, and shall give an 
order upon the treasurer to the creditor for the 
amounts collected. 

Sect. 6. In the assessment of school-district 
taxes, every person shall be taxed in the district 
in which he lives for his poll and his personal 
estate subject to taxation in town. Heal estate 
shall be taxed in the district in which it is situ- 
ated. 

Sect. 7. The selectmen may make a new 
invoice of all the property in the district when 
necessary for the just assessment of such taxes. 

Sect. 8. If such taxes are assessed after the 
first day of July in any year upon the property of 
non residents, the collector shall send to the own- 
ers of said property, or to their agents, if known, 



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a bill of their taxes within two months after the 
delivery of the list to him, and shall, at the expi- 
ration of fonr months after snch delivery, adver- 
tise and sell the property on which the taxes have 
not been paid in the same manner as if such 
taxes had been assessed in April preceding. 

Sect. 9. Any school district may, by vote or 
by-law, establish and maintain a high school in 
which the higher English branches of education 
and the Latin, Greek, and modern languages may 
be taught. 

Sect. 10. Two or more adjoining districts jn 
the same or different tov\^ns may make contracts 
with each other for establishing and maintaining 
Jointly a high or other public school for the benefit 
of their scholars, and may raise and appropriate 
money to carry the contracts into effect ; and their 
school boards, acting jointly or otherwise, shall 
have such authority and perform such duties in 
relation to schools so maintained as may be pro- 
vided for in the contracts. 

Sect. 11. Any school district may contract 
with an academy, seminary, or other literary insti- 
tution located within its limits or in its im- 
mediate vicinity, for furnishing instruction to its 
scholars ; and the school money may be used to 
carry the contract into effect. 

Sect. 12. Each district may determine upon 
what terms scholars from other districts or towns 
may be admitted into its schools. If the district 
neglects to make such determination, the school 
board may do it. 

Sect. 13. Every district situate in tv^'o or more 
towns shall be entitled to its just proportion of 



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school taxes, income of school funds, literary 
fund, and dog tax in each town, according to the 
valuation of polls and property taxable therein. 

Sect. 14. Any school district organized under 
a special act of the legislature may, by a majority 
vote of the qualified voters present and voting at a 
legal meeting, dissolve its corporate existence and 
unite with the town district.* 

Sect. 15. In such case the town disti'ict so 
formed shall forthwith take possession of the 
schoolhouses, lands, apparatus, and other property 
owned and used for school purposes by the district 
so dissolved which the district might lawfully sell 
or convey. 

Sect. 16. The property so taken, and also like 
propert}' of the distiict to which the special dis- 
trict is united, shall be appraised by the selectmen 
of the town, and at the next annual assessment a 
tax shall be levied upon the whole town district 
equal to the amount of the whole appraisal ; and 
there shall be remitted to the taxpayers of each 
district the appraised value of its property. 

Sect. 17. If a district so dissolved is formed 
of parts of two or more towns, an equitable appor- 
tionment of its assets and liabilities between such 
parts shall be made by the selectmen of the tow^ns 
in which they are situate, acting as a joint board, 
within sixty days after the dissolution. 

Sect. 18. If such joint board fail to make an 
apportionment within the time limited therefor, 
any taxpayer withia the district may apply by 
petition to a judge of the supreme court for the 

*See chapter 64, Session Laws of 1891. 



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appointment of a referee to make the apportion- 
ment. 

Sect. 19. The judge shall appoint a time and 
place of hearing upon the petition, and order 
notice thereof to be given to all parties inter- 
ested, and after hearing them he shall appoint a 
referee. 

Sect. 20. The notice shall be served by post- 
ing copies of the petition and order thereon in at 
least two public places in each of said parts, and by 
giving to the clerk of the dissolved district, and 
the clerk of each town district in which any part 
thereof is located, like copies ten days at least 
before the day of hearing. 

Sect. 21. The referee shall cause notice of his 
hearing to be given to all parties interested, in the 
same manner as is provided in the preceding sec- 
tion. He shall hear the parties, make his report 
in writing, and file a copy thereof with the clerk 
of the dissolved district and the clerk of each 
town interested ; and the report, so made and filed, 
shall be final. 

Sect. 22. Upon receiving a copy of the appor- 
tionment, the selectmen shall assess upon that 
part of the district within their town the amount 
for which it is charged, and cause the same to be 
collected and paid to the town district in which 
the creditor part of the dissolved district is situ- 
ated. 

Sect. 23. The town district shall take the 
property and assets of that part of the dis- 
solved district which is situate in such town 
district, and the selectmen of the town shall 



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assess and remit taxes with reference to the 
property so taken, and like property of the town 
district, the same as in other cases. 

Sect. 24. The corporate powers of a district 
shall continue for the purpose of settling up its 
affairs and of holding, managing, and enjoying 
any property held by it in trust, notwithstanding 
its dissolution ; but the school board of the district 
of which it forms a part shall be its agents to 
expend the income of any such trust property that 
is devoted to the support of schools. 

Sect. 25. The school board shall first give to 
such district or districts such term or character of 
schooling as would be just and reasonable if no 
such fund were in existence, and only use the 
income to lengthen the school or schools, or to 
carry out the purposes of the trust under which 
the funds are held. 

Sect. 26. Any justice of the peace may, upon 
application of three or more voters, resident within 
the limits of the dissolved district, call a meeting 
thereof in the same manner as other school-dis- 
trict meetings are called, at which a moderator, 
clerk, and agents may be chosen, and any other 
business transacted for the purposes mentioned in 
section twenty-four of this chapter. 

Sect. 27. The records of dissolved school dis- 
tricts whose corporate existence is not continued 
for any purpose shall be returned by the clerks of 
such districts to the town clerk's office for preser- 
vation with the public records of the town. 



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CHAPTER 90. 



MEETINGS AND OFFICERS OF SCHOOL 
DISTRICTS. 

Section 

1. Annual meetings, when holden. 

2. Special meetings, when holden. 

3. District meetings, where held. 

4. Warrants, by whom issued and what to contain. 

5. Warrants to contain notice of special subjects, when. 

6. When and where to be posted. 

7. May be issued by a justice of the peace, when. 

8. To be returned to the clerk and be recorded. 

9. Voters, who are. 

10. Check-list to be used, when. Amendment of 1S95. 

11. Illegal voting, how punished. 

12. Ofificers, what. 

13. Districts which maintain high school may increase 

membership of their school boards. 

14. Eligibility to office. 

15. Officers, hovi chosen; to be sworn, 

16. Tenure of office. v 

17. Moderator's powers and duties. 
iS. Clerk's duties. 

19. Clerk to report names, etc , of school board to town 

clerk, when ; penalty for neglect. 

20. Treasurer to give bond. 
2:. Treasurer's duties. 

22. Auditor's duties. 

23. Vacancies in district offices, how filled. 

24. District may elect or appoint superintendent of schools, 

etc. 



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Sfxtion 1. A meeting- of every school district 
shall be liolclen aiiimally between the first day of 
March and the twentieth day of April, inclusive, 
for the choice of district officers and the transac- 
tion of other district business. 

8kct. 2. A special meeting of a school district 
shall be holden whenever, in the opinion of the 
school board, there is occasion thei'efor, or when- 
ever ten or more voters, or one sixth of the voters 
of the district, shall have made written application 
to the school board therefor, setting forth the 
subject-matter upon which action is desired. 

Sect. 3. School-district meetings niay be held 
at tlie usual place where town meetings of the 
town are held, or at such other suitable place as in 
the opinion of the officers calling the meeting will 
best accommodate the voters. 

Sect. 4. They shall be warned by the school 
board, or, in cases authorized by law, by a justice 
of the peace, by warrant addressed to the inhab- 
itants of the district qualified to vote in district 
affairs, stating the tin)e and place of the meeting 
and the subject-matter of the business to be acted 
upon. 

Sect. 5. The officers issuing a warrant for a 
district meeting shall insert therein any subject- 
matter for which application has been made to 
them in writing by ten or more voters, or by one 
sixth of the voters of the district. 

Sect. 6. The school board or justice issuing a 
warrant shall cause an attested copy of it to be 
posted at the place of the meeting, and alike copy 
at one other public place in the district, fourteen 
days before the day of meeting. 



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Sect. 7. If the school board does not cause a 
warrant for the annual meeting to be posted on or 
before the second Tuesday of March in any j'ear, 
or for a special meeting within ten days after 
application therefor is made to them, a justice of 
the peace, upon application of ten or more voters, 
or of one sixth of the voters of the district, may 
issue such warrant and cause it to be posted. 

Sect. 8. The warrant, with a certificate thereon, 
verified by oath, stating the time and places when 
and where copies of it were posted, shall be given 
to the clerk of the district at or before the time of 
the meeting, and shall be recorded by him in the 
records of the district. 

Sect. 9. Any person, whether male or female, 
but in all other respects except sex qualified to 
vote in town affairs, may vote at school-district 
meetings in the district in which such person has 
resided and had a home three months next pre- 
ceding the meeting. 

Sect. 10. Upon petition of ten legal voters of 
any district, presented in January, or if the district 
at its annual meeting shall have voted that a check- 
list be used at future meetings, the school board 
shall make, post, and correct a list of the legal 
voters in the district, as supervisors are required 
to do in regard to the list of voters in their towns ; 
and such list shall be used and checked, at the 
election of officers and otherwise, at the annual 
meeting of the district, as in case of town meet- 
ings. 

[Section 10 was amended by chapter 97 of Ses- 
sion Laws of 1895, as follows : 



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Section 1. That section 30 of chapter 90 of 
the Public Statutes shall not ])e applicable to any 
special school district in this state, unless a peti- 
tion for a check-list shall be signed by five per 
cent, of the legal voters of the district.] 

Sect. 11. If any person under the age of twen- 
ty-one years, or any alien not naturalized, or any 
person M'ho has not resided and had his home in 
the district for three months and in the town for 
six months preceding, shall vote in any district 
meeting, or if any person shall give in more than 
one vote for any officer voted for at the meeting, 
or if any person, being under examination before 
the school board as to his qualifications as a voter, 
shall give any false name or ansv^'er, he shall be 
fined not exceeding thirty dollars, or be impris- 
oned not exceeding three months. 

Sect. 12. The officers of every school district 
for which the law does not otherwise provide shall 
be a moderator, a clerk, a school board of three 
persons, a treasurer, and one or more auditors, and 
such other officers and agents as the voters may 
judge necessary for managing the district affairs. 

Sect. 13. While any district maintains a high 
school or unites with another district in maintain- 
ing one, it may have a school board consisting of 
three, six, or nine members, as it shall determine 
by vote or by-law. Whenever it ceases to main- 
tain or to unite in maintaining a high school, it 
shall thereaftervYards elect only one member to 
the school board each year to fill vacancies occur- 
ring from expiration of term of service, so that the 
board will decrease in numbers, year by year, until 
it shall be composed of only three members. 



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Sect. 14. No person shall be eligible to any 
school-district office unless he is a voter in the dis- 
trict. 

Sf:ct. 15. [As amended hy chapter 69, Session 
Laivs of 1897.] The moderator shall be chosen 
by ballot, by a plurality vote ; the clerk, school 
board, and treasurer shall be chosen by ballot, by 
a majority vote. The moderator, clerk, and 
school board shall be sworn. 

Sect. 16. One third of the members of the 
school board shall be chosen each year to hold 
office for three years, and until their successors 
are chosen and qualified, and vacancies in the 
board shall be filled so as to preserve such succes- 
sion in office. All other officers shall be chosen 
annually, and shall hold office for one year, and 
until their successors are chosen and qualified. 

Sect. 17. The moderator shall have the like 
power and duty as a moderator of a town meeting 
to conduct the business and to preserve order, and 
may administer oaths to district officers and in the 
district business. In case of a vacancy or absence, 
a moderator j^ro tempore may be chosen. 

Sect. 18. The clerk shall keep a true record of 
all the doings of each meeting ; shall deliver to the 
selectmen of the town an attested copy of every 
vote to raise money within ten days after the 
meeting ; shall make an attested copy of any 
record of the district for any person upon request 
and tender of legal fees therefor ; shall act as mod- 
erator of anj^ meeting until a moderator pro tempore 
shall be chosen, if the moderator is absent or the 
office has become vacant : and shall have the same 



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power to adniinister oaths which the moderator 
has. If the clerk is absent at any meeting, a clerk 
pro tempore shall be chosen. 

Sect. 19. The clerk of every school district 
shall, forthwith, after the election from time to 
time of members of the school board, report in 
writing their names and post-office addresses to the 
town clerk of the town ; and if he fails to do so, he 
shall be fined twenty dollars, one half for the use 
of the complainant and the other half for the use 
of the town. 

Sect. 20. The treasurer shall, before entering 
upon the duties of his office, give a bond with suf- 
ficient sureties to the district, to the acceptance of 
the school board, for the faithful performance of 
his official duties. 

Sect. 2J. The treasurer shall have the custody 
of all moneys belonging to the district, and shall 
pay out the same only upon orders of the school 
board. He shall keep a fair and correct account 
of all sums received into and paid from the dis- 
trict treasury. At the close of each fiscal year he 
shall make a report to the district, giving a par- 
ticular account of all receipts and payments dur- 
ing the year. He shall furnish to the school board 
statements from his books, and submit his books 
and vouchers to them and to the district auditors 
for examination, whenever so requested. 

Sect. 22. The auditors shall carefully exam- 
ine ihe accounts of the treasurer and school board 
at the close of each fiscal year, and at other times 
whenever necessary, and report to the disti'ict 
whether the same are correctly cast and well 
vouched. 



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Sect. 23. The school board shall fill vacancies 
occurring in the board, and in other district offices 
except that of moderator, until the next annual 
meeting of the district. In case of vacancy of the 
entire membership of the board, or the remaining 
members are unable to agree upon an appointment, 
the selectmen, upon application of one or more 
voters in the district, shall fill the vacancies so ex- 
isting until the next annual meeting of the dis- 
trict. 

Sect. 24. [As amended hy chapter 48, Session 
Laios o/1895.] A school district may require the 
school board to elect or appoint a superintendent 
of schools, who shall hold office for such term, be 
vested with such of the powers and charged wdth 
such of the duties of the school board, and be en- 
titled to such compensation as it may provide ; and 
such district may raise and appropriate money to 
pay the compensation. \_See chapter 47, Session 
Laws of 1895, and chapter 77, Session Laius of 1899.] 



CHAPTER 91. 
SCHOOLHOUSES. 

Section 

1. District may locate by vote or committee. 

2. Powers of committee limited. 

3. Voters aggrieved may apply to school board. 

4. School board to locate, vv^hen, 

5. County commissioners to locate, when. 

6. Chairman to give notice of hearings, how. 

7. Vacancies in board, how filled. 



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8, Hearing, when ; decision, how made and filed. 

9. District to take no steps to carry former location into 

effect while appeal pending. 

10. Commissioners, how paid. 

11. Location conclusive, for what time. 

12. Kxisting lot, how enlarged. 

13. Land appraised by selectmen, when. 

14. Appeal by landowner. 

15. Title to vest in district, when. 

16. Selectmen to bnildschoolhonse, when. 

17. Schools, where kept. 

18. Use of schoolhouses may be granted, for what pnrposes 

and when. 

[^For cities, see cliapter 65, Session Laivs of lSi)7 .^ 

Section 1. The district may decide upon the 
location of its schoolhouses, by vote or by a com- 
mittee appointed for the purpose. 

Sect. 2. No committee shall have power to 
bind the district beyond the amount of money 
voted by it, and the district shall not be bound by 
any act, as a ratification of the doings of such 
committee, beyond their authority, unless by 
express vote of the district. 

Sect. 3. If ten or more voters of a district are 
aggrieved by the location of a schoolliouse by the 
district or its committee, they may apply by peti- 
tion to the school board, who shall hear the par- 
ties interested and determine the location. 

Sect. 4. If the district does not agree upon a 
location for a schoolliouse or upon a committee to 
locate the same, or if the same is not located by 
such committee within thirty days after its ap- 
pointment, the school board, upon petition of ten 
or more voters, shall determine the location. 



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Sect. 5. If ten or more voters of a school 
district are aggrieved by tlie location of a 
schoolhotise by the district or its committee, 
or by the school board, they may apply by 
petition to the county conunissioners within 
ten days after the making of the location, who 
shall hear the parties interested and determine the 
location. 

Sect. 6. The chairman of the county commis- 
sioners shall appoint a time and place within the 
district for a hearing upon every such petition ; 
and shall give notice thereof by causing attested 
copies of the petition and order of notice to be 
posted at two or more public places within the 
district and to be given in hand to, or left at the 
abode of, the clerk of the district and of one of 
the school board, fourteen days before the day of 
hearing. 

Sect. 7. In such cases, vacancies in the board 
of commissioners arising from disqualification of 
members or otherwise shall be filled in the same 
manner as like vacancies are filled in highway 
cases referred to them. 

Sect. 8. The hearing shall be closed within 
sixty days. The commissioners shall hear all 
parties interested who desii'e to be heard, and 
shall make their decision in writing and file it 
with the clerk of the district. 

Sect. 9. The district shall take no steps to 
carry into effect a former location while any sub- 
sequent proceedings authorized by law for a change 
thereof are pending. 

Sect. 10. The commissioners shall be paid by 
the district for their services the same fees as in 



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highway cases. Districts are authorized to raise 
money for that purpose. 

Sect. 11. The location of schoolhouses, how- 
ever made, shall be conclusive for the term of five 
years, unless an appeal therefrom shall be prose- 
cuted as provided in this chapter. 

Skct. 12. The school board or county commis- 
sioners n)ay enlarge any existing schoolhouse lot 
so that it shall contain not exceeding one acre, 
upon such petition to them and proceedings 
thereon as are required to authorize them to de- 
termine the location for a schoolhouse. 

Sect. 13. If any school district shall neglect or 
refuse to procure the lot of land selected for the 
location of a schoolhouse or for the enlargement of 
an existing schoolhouse lot, as i^rovided in this 
chapter, or if the owner of the land shall refuse to 
sell the same to the district for a reasonable 
price, the selectmen, upon petition to them by the 
school board or by three or more voters of the dis- 
trict, shall appraise the damages occasioned to the 
landowner by the taking of his land. The ap- 
praisal shall be made in writing, and be tiled with 
the clerk of the district. 

Sect. 14. Any landowner aggrieved by such 
appraisal of his damages may appeal therefrom to 
the supreme court by petition within sixty days 
after the appraisal is filed with the clerk of the 
district ; and the procedure and remedies upon 
such appeal shall be the same as in appeals from 
tlie assessment of damages by selectmen in high- 
way cases, except that service of papers shall be 
made upon the clerk of the district and one of the 



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school board, instead of the town clerk and one of 
the selectmen, and except as provided in the fol- 
lowing section. 

Sect. 15. Upon payment or tender of the dam- 
ages awarded, 'the land, shall vest in the district, 
and it may take possession of it. Such payment 
or tender may be made in accordance with the 
award of the selectn)en before an appeal is taken, 
or while an appeal is pending, and shall have like 
effect. In such case, if the damages are increased 
upon appeal the landowner shall have judgment 
for the excess ; if decreased, the district shall have 
judgment for the amount of the decrease. If the 
result of the appeal is to change the award of dam- 
ages in favor of the landowner, he shall recover 
costs ; otherwise, he shall pay costs. 

Sect. 16. If a district shall refuse or neglect 
to build, repair, remove, or fit up a schoolhouse, or 
shall refuse or neglect to build a schoolhouse npou 
or to remove it to the lot designated as aforesaid, 
the selectmen, npon petition of three or more 
voters of the district, after hearing the parties, 
may assess upon the district and collect such sums 
of money as may be necessary, and therewith 
cause such schoolhouse to be built, removed, re- 
paired, or fitted up. 

Sect. 17. The schools of a district shall be 
kept in its schoolhouses, if it has suitable houses 
that will accommodate the scholars ; if not, the 
school board shall provide suitable accommoda- 
tions for the schools at the expense of the district. 

Sect. 18. A school district or the school board 
thereof may grant the use of any schoolhouse in 
the district for a writing or singing school, and 



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for religions and other meetings, whenever snch 
use will not conflict with any regular school exer- 
cise. The persons so using a schoolhouse shall be 
liable for any damages to the same and to the 
property therein. 



CHAPTER 93. 

SCHOOL BOARD, TEACHERS AND TRUANT 
OFFICERS. 

Skction 

1. Board to provide schools. 

2. To hire teachers. 

3. May dismiss teachers, when. 

4. Teacher to receive no pay for services rendered after 

dismissal. 

5. Rules and regulations lo be prescribed bj- the board. 

6. Branches of studj* prescribed, and examination of 

teachers. 

7. P'ree text-books. 

8. United States flags to be purchased at expense of 

town. 

9. Text-books favoring religious sect or political part^^ not 

allowed. 

10. School boards to furnish registers and visit schools. 

11. Teacher to return the register, when. 

12. School board to make report annually. 

13. School boards shall send reports to superintendent of 

public instruction. 

14. Penaltj' for neglect. 

15. Schoc^ boards shall appoint truant officers. 



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i6. Tenure of office. 

17. Duties in regard to truants. 

iS. Duties in regard to children in manufacturing estab- 
lishments. 

19. Compensation of school board. 

20. .School daj"-, etc., what. 

21. Teachers may attend institutes. 

Section 1. The school board of every dis- 
trict shall provide schools at such places within 
the district and at such times in each year as 
will best subserve the interests of education, 
and will give to all scho'ars of the district as 
nearly equal advantages as may be practicable. 
They may use a portion of the school money, 
not exceeding twenty-five per cent, for the pur- 
pose of conveying scholars to and from the 
schools. 

Sect. 2. \_As amended hy chapter 50, Session 
Laios of 1895.] The school board shall select and 
hire suitable and competent teachers holding cer- 
tificates, as provided by law, shall provide neces- 
sary fuel, and shall make such occasional repairs 
of the schoolhouses and furniture as may be 
necessary, not exceeding in cost five per cent, of 
the school money. 

Sect. 3. \^As amended hy chapter 51, Session 
Laws of 1895.] They shall dismiss any teacher 
found by them to be unsuitable or incompetent or 
who shall not conform to the regulations by them 
prescribed. 

Sect. 4. No teacher shall recover pay for ser- 
vices rendered after notice of dismissal. 



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Sect. 5. The school board may prescribe reg- 
ulations for the attendance upon, and for the man- 
agement, studies, classification, and discipline 
of the schools; and such regulations, when re- 
corded by the district clerk, and a copy thereof 
has been given to the teachers and read in the 
schools shall be binding upon scholars and teach- 
ers. 

Sect. G. [As amended hy chapter 40, Ses- 
sion Laws of 1895, and chapter 31, Session Laws 
of 1903.] They shall prescribe in all mixed 
schools and in all graded schools above primarj^, 
the studies of physiology and hygiene, having 
special reference to the effects of alcoholic stimu- 
lants and of narcotics upon the human system, 
and shall see that the studies so prescribed are 
thoroughly taught in said schools and that well 
approved text-books upon these subjects are 
furnished to teachers and scholars, and that the 
constitution of the United States and of the state 
of New Hampshire be read aloud by the scholars 
at least once dui-ing the last year of the course 
below the High School, and may permit or pre- 
scribe the study of algebra, geometry, surveying, 
bookkeeping, philosophy, chemistry, and natural 
history, or any of them, and other suitable 
studies.* School boards shall, annually, in the 
month of June or July, and at such other times 
as they deem best, hold an examination of can- 
didates for certificates of qualification to teach 

^Section 2, chapter 40, T^aws of 1S95. If any member of 
the school board shall nco^lect or refuse to comply with the 
provisions of the first paragraph of section 6, he shall 
forfeit the sum of two hundred dollars. 



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in tlie public schools. Candidates shall be exam- 
ined ill the studies prescribed by law, or by the 
school board in accordance with law. Such can- 
didates as pass an examination satisfactory to the 
school board, and present satisfactory evidence of 
good moral character and capacity for govern- 
ment, shall receive certificates of qualification 
signed by the school board, to continue in force 
not more than one year from the date thereof.* 

Sect. 7. [.45 amended by chapter 50, Session 
Laws of 1895.] They shall purchase, at the 
expense of the city or town in which the district is 
situated, text-books and other supplies required 
for use in the public schools ; and shall loan the 
same to the pupils of such schools free of charge, 
subject to such regulations for their care and 
custody as the school board may prescribe. They 
shall make provision for the sale of such books at 
cost to pupils of the school wishing to purchase 
them for their own use. 

Sect. 8. \^As amended, by chapter 39, Session 
Lav:s of 1903. Chapter 50, Session Laws of 
1895.] They shall purchase at the expense of 
the city or town in which the district is situated, 
a United States flag of bunting not less than five 
feet in length with a flag-staffc' and appliances for 
displaying the same, for every schoolhouse in the 
district in which a public school is taught not oth- 
erwise supplied. They shall prescribe rules and 
regulations for the proper custody, care, and 
display of the flag ; and whenever not otherwise 
displayed, it shall be placed conspicuously in the 

* See chapter 49, Session I^aws of 1S95, page 49. 



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principal room of the schoolhouse. Any members 
of a school board who shall refuse or neglect to 
comply with the provisions of this section shall be 
fined ten dollars for the first olfense and twenty 
dollars for every subsequent offense. 

Not more than ten dollars shall be expended for 
the flag, flag-staff", and a])pliances for any one 
schoolhouse, and the school board shall have the 
same control over its preservation and display that 
it has over the other district property. 

Sect. 9. [^As amended by chapter 50, Session 
Laws of 1895.] No book shall be introduced into 
the public schools calculated to favor any particu- 
lar religious sect or political party. 

Sect. 10. They shall furnish to every teacher 
one of the blank registers provided by the super- 
intendent of public instruction, and shall visit and 
examine each school in their district at least twice 
in each term, once near the beginning and once 
near the close thereof. 

Sect. 11. Every teacher shall niake the en- 
tries in the register required by the supeiintend- 
ent of public instruction, and at the close of the 
term shall return the register to the school board. 
Tw^enty dollars of the wages of every teacher shall 
be withheld until he lias made such return. 

Sect. 12. \^As amended by chapter 50, Session 
Laws of 1895.] School boards shall file with the 
selectmen on or before the first day of August, in 
each year, their reports to their respective dis- 
tricts, stating the number of weeks the public 
schools have been kept in their districts in sum- 
mer and winter, and what portion by male and 
what by female teachers ; the number of teachers 



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employed during the year, reckoning successive 
teachers employed in the same school as one 
teacher ; the number of days' attendance of all 
the pupils of the district, inclusive of days spent 
by teachers of the schools of said district in at- 
tendance upon teachers' institutes as provided by 
law and days spent in attendance upon the annual 
meeting of the state teachers' association, and 
tlie average attendance of pupils during the re- 
mainder of the term shall be considered as the 
attendance of the pupils during such days ; the 
number of scholars who have attended each 
school; the number who have attended to each 
study ; the number of scholars of their districts 
not less than five years of age who have attended 
the public schools in their district not less than 
two weeks during the year ; and containing such 
suggestions relative to the schools as they may 
think useful. School boards of town districts 
shall also include in their reports a statement of 
the number of children qf each sex reported by 
the truant officer or agents of the school board ; 
the number of each sex between the ages of five 
and sixteen years who have not attended school ; 
the number of scholars not less than five years of 
age who have attended the district schools in the 
town not less than two weeks dui'ing the year, 
and the number of persons in each district be- 
tween the ages of fourteen and twentj^-one years 
who cannot read and write. 

Sect. 13. [As amended hy chapter 50, Session 
Laws of 1895, and chapter 5, Sessioji Laios of 
1903.] School boards shall on or before the 
fifteenth day of July in each year, send to the 



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superintendent of public instruction copies of 
their annual reports and answers to the questions 
proposed by him, relating to the schools in their 
district; the school year shall begin with the fall 
term. 

Sect. 14. Any nien)ber of a school board who 
shall neglect or refuse to comply with the provi- 
sions of the preceding section shall be fined not 
exceeding fifty dollars. 

Sect. 15. \^As amended hij chapter 70, Session 
Laws 0/1899.] School boards shall appoint truant 
otficers for tlieir districts, and fix their compensa- 
tion at a reasonable rate, which compensation 
shall be paid by the towns. 

Sect. 16. Truant officers shall hold office for 
one year, and until their successors shall be ap- 
pointed, but they may be removed by the school 
board at any time for cause. 

Sect. 17. [.l^^ amended hy chapter 70, Session 
Lawsofl'^d^.'] Truant officers shall, under the 
direction of the school board, enforce the laws and 
regulations relating to truants and children be- 
tween the ages of eight and sixteen years not at- 
tending school, and without any regular and law- 
ful occupation ; and the laws relating to the 
attendance at school of children between the ages 
of eight and sixteen years. 

Sect. 18. \_As amended hy chapter 70, Session 
Laws of 1899.] Truant officers shall, if re- 
quired by the school board, enforce the laws pro- 
hibiting the employment of children in manufac- 
turing, mechanical, or mercantile establishments, 
who have not attended school the prescribed time ; 



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and for this purpose they may, when so author- 
ized and required by vote of the school board, visit 
the manufacturing, mechanical, and mercantile es- 
tablishments in their respective cities and towns, 
and ascertain whether any children under the age 
of sixteen are employed therein contrary to the 
provisions of law, and they shall report any cases 
of such illegal employment to the school board ; 
and the truant officers, when authorized as afore- 
said, may demand the names of all children under 
sixteen years of age employed in such manufac- 
turing, mechanical, and mercantile establishments, 
and may require that the certificates and lists of 
such children provided for by lav^ shall be pro- 
duced for their inspection. Truant officers shall 
inquire into the employment, otherwise than in 
such manufacturing, mechanical, and mercantile 
establishments, of children under the age of six- 
teen years, during the hours when the public 
schools are in session, and may require that the 
certificates of all children under sixteen shall be 
pi'oduced for their inspection ; and any such officer 
may bring a prosecution against a person or corpo- 
ration employing any such child, otherwise than 
as aforesaid, during the hours when the public 
schools are in session, contrary to the provisions 
of law. 

A refusal or failure on the part of an employer 
of children under sixteen years of age to produce 
the certificate required by law, when requested by 
a truant officer, shall be prima facie evidence of 
the illegal employment of the child whose certifi- 
cate is not produced. 



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Truant officers shall have authority without 
a warrant to take and place in school any children 
found employed contrary to the laws relating to 
the employment of children or violating the laws 
relating to the compulsory attendance at school of 
children between the ages of six and sixteen j^ears. 

Sect. 19. The school board, upon satisfying 
the selectmen that they have attended to the du- 
ties and made the reports by law required, shall be 
paid such reasonable compensation as the town or 
selectmen may determine. 

Sect. 20. In the absence of express contract, 
a session of three hours in the forenoon and three 
hours in the afternoon shall constitute a school 
day, five such days a school week, and four such 
weeks a school month, in the public schools. 

Sect. 21. [As amended hy chapter 29, Session 
Laws of 1903.^ Teachers of public schools may 
attend teachers' institutes held within the state, 
as provided by law, not exceeding three days in 
any term or five days in any year, and the time so 
spent shall be regarded as spent in the service of 
the district. 



CHAPTER 93, 
SCHOLARS. 



Section 

1. Scholar not to attend where not a resident without 

leave. 

2. Children not to attend school unless vaccinated. 

3. May be dismissed for misconduct. 

4. To attend where assigned. 



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5. Penalty for attending without right. 

6. District may make by-laws as to truants. 

7. Offenders against by-laws, how punished. 

8. Fine may be remitted, etc. 

9. May attend school upon giving bond for good behavior. 

10. Children under twelve not to be employed in manufac- 

turing establishments. 

11. Children under si.xteen who cannot read and write 

English may be so emplo5'ed, when. 

12. No minor to be employed unless he can read or write 

Knglish when evening school is in session. 

13. Penalties in such cases for violation of the .statutes. 

14. Parents required to send children to school. 

15. Superintendent of public instruction authorized to en- 

force attendance laws. 

16. School boards to furni.sh copy of law in certain cases. 

17. Persons disturbing school, how punished. 

18. School board to prosecute offenders. 

19. lyiraitation of prosecutions. 

20. Certificates from private schools. 

Section 1. No person shall attend school, or 
send a scholar to the school, in any district of 
which he is not an inhabitant, without the consent 
of the district or of the school board. 

Sect. 2. [.4 s amended hy chapter 19, Session 
Laivs 0/1901.] No chihl shall attend any public, 
parochial, or private school unless he has been vac- 
cinated or has had the smallpox, and this section 
shall be enforced by the board of health. 

Sect. 3. Any scholar may be dismissed from 
school by the school board for gross misconduct, 
or for neglect or refusal to conform to the reason- 
able rules of the school ; and he shall not attend 
the school until restored by the school board. 



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Sect. 4. No scholar who shall have been as- 
signed to a particular school by the school board 
shall attend any other school in the district until 
assigned thereto. 

Sect. 5. If any scholar, after notice, shall 
attend or visit a school which he has no right to 
attend, or shall interrupt or disturb the same, he 
shall be fined for the first ott'ense five dollars, and 
for any subsequent offense ten dollars, or be im- 
prisoned not exceeding thirty da3's. 

Sect. 6. Districts may make by-laM'S, not 
repugnant to law, concerning habitual truants 
and children between the ages of six and six- 
teen years not attending school and not having a 
regular and lawful occupation, and to compel tiie 
attendance of such children at school, and may 
annex penalties for the breach thereof not exceed- 
ing ten dollars for each offense. 

Sect. 7. Any offender against such by-laws, 
upon conviction, may be sentenced to pay a fine 
and to be committed to the Industrial School until 
it is paid or he is otherwise discharged, or he may 
be sentenced to the Industrial School for a term 
not exceeding one year. 

Sect. 8. The court or justice imposing a fine 
upon any such offender may remit it upon proof 
that he is unable to pay it, and has no parent, 
guardian, or person chargeable with his support, 
able to pay it, and iiuiy discharge him from the 
Industrial School if he has been committed there 
for non-payment thereof. 

Sect. 9. Any such offender so convicted may 
give bond to the district in the penal sum of 



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twenty-five dollars, with sufficient sureties, ap- 
proved by the court or justice before whom he 
was convicted, conditioned to attend regularly 
some school kept in the district for one term next 
ensuing, to comply with the regulations thereof, 
and to be obedient and respectful to the teacher ; 
and his fine raa}^ thereupon be remitted by 
such court or justice upon payment of the costs. 

Sect. 10. \^As amended hy chapter 61, Session 
Laws of 1901.] No child under the age of twelve 
years shall be employed in any manufacturing 
establishment. No child under the age of four- 
teen years shall be employed in any manu- 
facturing establishment, nor in any mechanical, 
mercantile, or other employment during the time 
in which the public schools are in session in the 
district in which he resides. 

Sect. 11. [^As amended hy chapter 61, Session 
Laivs of 1901] No child under the age of sixteen 
years shall be employed in any manufacturing 
establishment, or in any mechanical, mercantile, 
or other employment, during the time in which 
the public schools are in session in the district in 
which he resides, without first presenting a state- 
ment of his age from his parent or guardian, sworn 
to before the superintendent of schools, or, if 
there is no superintendent of schools, before some 
person authorized by the school board of the dis- 
trict in which such child is employed. 

And no child under the age of sixteen years 
shall be employed as aforesaid during the time in 
which the public schools are in session in the 
district in which he resides without first present- 
ing a certificate from the superintendent of 



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schools, or, if there is no superintendent of 
scliools, some person authorized by the school 
board, that such child can read at sight and write 
legibly siniple sentences in the English language. 
And any superintendent of schools or person 
authorized by the school board who certifies 
falsely as to matters prescribed by this section 
shall be fined not less than twenty nor more than 
fifty dollars for each offense. 

Sect. 12. [^1.? amended by cliapler 61, Sesfiion 
Laws of 1901.] No minor shall be employed in 
any manufacturing establishment, or in any me- 
chanical, mercantile, or other employment, who 
cannot read at sight and write legibly simple 
sentences in the English language, while a free 
public evening school is maintained in the district 
in which he resides unless he is a regular attend- 
ant at such evening school or at a day school ; 
provided, that upon presentation by such minor of 
a certificate signed by a regular practising physi- 
cian, and satisfactory to the superintendent of 
schools, or, whei'e there is no superintendent of 
schools, the school board, showing that the phys- 
ical condition of such minor would render such 
attendance in addition to daily labor prejudicial 
to his health, said superintendent of schools or 
school board shall issue a permit authorizing the 
employment of such minor for such period as said 
superintendent of schools or school board may 
determine. Said superintendent of schools or 
school board, or teachers acting under authority 
thereof, may excuse any absence from such even- 
ing school arising from justifiable cause. Any 
parent, guardian, or custodian who permits to be 



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employed any minor under his control in violation 
of the provisions of this section shall forfeit not 
more than twenty dollars for the use of the even- 
ing schools of such town or city. 

Sect. 13. [As amended by chapter 61, Session 
Laivs of 1901.] If any owner, agent, superin- 
tendent, or overseer of a manufacturing, mechan- 
ical, or mercantile establishment or any other 
person shall employ any child in violation of the 
provisions of either of the three preceding sec- 
tions, he shall be fined not exceeding fifty dollars 
for each offense, for the use of the district. 

Sect. 14. [As amended hy chapter 61, Session 
Laios of 1901, a7id chapter 13, Session Laws of 
1903.] Every person having the custody and con- 
trol of a child between the ages of eight and 
fourteen years, or of a child under the age of 
sixteen years, who cannot read at sight and write 
legibly simple sentences in the English language, 
residing in a school district in which a public 
school is annually taught, shall cause such child 
to attend the public school all the time such 
school is in session, unless the child shall be ex- 
cused by the school board of the district because 
his physical or mental condition is such as to 
prevent his attendance at school for the period 
required, or because he was instructed in the 
English language in a private school approved 
by the school board for a number of weeks equal 
to that in which the public school was in session 
in the common English branches, or, having ac- 
quired those branches, in other more advanced 
studies. Any person who does not comply with 
the requirements of this section shall be fined ten 



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dollars for the first offense and twenty dollars for 
every subsequent offense, for the use of the dis- 
trict. 

Sect. 15. [^is amended hy cliapter 61, Session 
Laws of 1901.] The state superintendent of 
public instruction shall have authority to enforce 
the laws rehating to attendance at school and the 
employment of niinors, and, for this purpose, he 
and any deputy appointed by him shall be vested 
with the powers given by law to truant officers 
when authorized by school boards to enforce the 
laws relating to attendance at school and the 
employment of children. And the expenses 
necessarily incurred by the state superintendent 
in such enforcement shall be paid, as audited and 
allowed by the governor and council. 

Sect. 1G. The school board of every district 
shall cause a copy of the two preceding sections 
to be sent to every person who they have reason 
to believe does not comply with the requirements 
of section fouileen of this chapter. 

Sect. 17. Any person, not a scholar, who shall 
wilfully interrupt or disturb any school shall be 
punished by a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, or 
by imprisonment not exceeding thirty days. 

Sect. 18. It shall be the duty of the school 
board to prosecute offenders for violations of the 
provisions of this chapter. If they neglect to 
perform this duty they shall forfeit twenty dollars 
for each neglect, for the nse of the district, to be 
recovered in the name of the district by the select- 
men of the town. All necessary expenses incurred 
in such proceedings shall be paid by the district. 



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Sect. 19. No prosecution under this chapter 
shall be sustained unless begun within one year 
after the offense is committed. 

Sect. 20. \_E'nacted hij chapter 62, Session Laws 
of 1895.] No certificate as provided in the 
foregoing secLions shall be issued for attendance 
at any private school, unless such school shall 
have previously been approved by the school 
board of the district in which it is situated as 
furnishing instruction in the English language in 
all the studies required by law equal to that given 
in the public schools of said district, and unless 
the record of attendance shall be kept in the form 
required of the public schools, and be open to the 
inspection of the school board of the district at 
all times. 



CHAPTER 94. 

SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUC- 
TION. 

Section 

1. vSuperinteiident, how appointed; tenure of office. 

2. His duties defined. 

3. To visit and lecture in towns. 

4. To organize and hold teachers' institutes. 

5. To appoint suitable person to attend in case he cannot. 

6. Kxpense of institutes provided for. 

7. How paid. 

8. His accounts audited, how. 

9. To send copy of his report to school boards. 

10. Clerical expenses provided for. 



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Section 1. 'I'lie govi'inoi-, with udvice of coun- 
cil, slijill apjjoiiii ;i siii)eriiik!ii(len(i ol" public in- 
struction, who sluiU hold oliice i"or tlie term of two 
years, and .shall liave general supervision and con- 
trol of the educational interests oL' the state. 

Si'Xri'. 2. [yl.s aiiwiulcd htj cliapter '35, Ses- 
sion Lairs <)/' li^UT), and chapter O'], Session Lams 
of VJO'-S.] The superintendent of public instruc- 
tion shall prescribe the form of register to be kept 
in the schools, and the form of blanks and incpiir- 
ies for the returns to be made by the school 
boards, and shall S(\asoiuibly send the same to the 
clerks of the several towns and cities for the use 
of the school boards therein ; he shall receive, pre- 
serve, or distribute all state documents in regard to 
public schools or education, and shall receive and 
ai'range in his oHice re[)oi'ts and returns of school 
boards ; he shall investigate the condition and elli- 
ciency of the system of popular education in the 
state, especially in relation to the amount and 
character of the instructioti given to the study of 
l)hysiol()gy and hygicuie, having sj^ecial refei'ence 
to tlu! elfects of alcoholic stimulants and of nar- 
cotics upon the human system, ;ind shall rccom- 
njend to school boards what he considers the best 
text-books upon those subjects and suggest to 
them the best mode of teaching them, and shall 
pursue such a course for the puri)ose of awakening 
and guiding juiblic sentinumt in relation tluM'cto 
as nuiy seem to him best, and he shall biennially 
make a rejtort, containing a concise abstract of the 
returns ol' the school boards, a detailed report of 
his own doings, a statement ol' the condition and 
progress of popular education in the state, and 



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such suggestions and recommendations in regard 
to improving the same as liis inroi-matit)n and 
judgment nuiy dictate. He shall liave authority 
at the close oi" each biennial session oi' tlie legis- 
lature to compile and issue at the expense of the 
state an edition of the school laws with the ses- 
sion amendments, not exceeding two thousand 
copies. 

Skct. 3. lie shall visit and lecture upon edn- 
cational subjects in as many towns and cities of 
the state during the term of his olllce as the time 
occupied by his other odicial duties will ]»ei-mit. 

Skct. 4. lie shall organize, superintend, and 
hold at least one teachers' institute each year in 
each county of the state, and appoint the time and 
place, and make suital)le arrangements therefor. 

Skct. 5. In case he is unable for any cause to 
conduct in person any institute, or to mnlco the 
necessary arrangenuuits therefor, he shall a]>point 
the principal of the state normal school, or some 
other suitable person, for that purpose. 

Skct. 6. The state treasurer is authorized and 
instructed to invest, as a permanent institute fund, 
the proceeds of the sale of the state lands effected 
under the authority of a joint resolution approved 
«June 28, 1867, and the annual income thereof is 
set apart for the support of teachers' institutes. 

Skct. 7. The superintendent of public instruc- 
tion may draw upon the states trtiasurer each year 
for such part of said inconie as may be iXMpiired to 
defray the necessary expenses of the institutes, 
and for procuring suitable instruction and lec- 
turers for the same. 



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Sect. 8. His account for the expenses of the 
institutes shall be audited each year by the gov- 
ernor and council, and he shall incorporate in his 
annual report a report of the institutes and of the 
expenses of the same. 

Sect. 9. He shall forward to the chairman of 
every school board in the state a copy of each of 
his annual reports. 

Sect. 10. [.l.s amended hij chapter 36, Session 
Laws of lS9d.^ The sum of ten hundred dollars, 
or such part thereof as may be needed, is annually 
appropriated for clerical expenses of this depart- 
ment. 



CHAPTER 95, 



NEW hampshirp: state normal 

> SCHOOL. 

Section 

1. Normal school, its object. 

2. Trustees of school, and tenure of office. 

3. How organized. 

4. To employ principal of school. 

5. Courses of study. 

6. Admission and graduation. 

7. Tuition free, in what cases. 

8. Annual appropriation and b}' whom expended. 

9. Normal teachers to assist at institutes. 

10. Superintendent of public instruction to report condi- 
tion of school. 



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Section 1. The New Hampshire State Nor- 
mal School, as heretofore established and located, 
is continued. The instruction in the school shall 
be confined to such branches as will specially pre- 
pare the pupils to teach in the public schools, and 
to such other branches as are usually taught in 
normal schools. The school shall be in session at 
least twenty weeks in each year. 

Sect. 2. \^As amended hy chapter 3, Session 
Laws of 1903.] The management of the school 
shall be vested in a board of trustees composed of 
the governor, the superintendent of public instruc- 
tion, and five other persons who shall be appointed 
by the governor, with the advice of the council, 
and shall hold office for five years, one of whom 
shall be appointed each year. 

Sect. 3. The board shall choose from its mem- 
bers a president and secretar}^, and such commit- 
tees and other oflicers as may be necessary to 
transact its business, and may choose a treasurer 
who is not a member of the board. They shall 
meet at least once each year and shall receive no 
compensation for services, but shall be paid their 
reasonable expenses while engaged in the per- 
formance of their duties. 

Sect. 4. They shall select and employ a 
principal teacher for the school, who shall be 
allowed with their advice and consent, to select 
the assistants and provide for the discipline of the 
school. 

Sect. 5. The trustees, with the principal, shall 
arrange courses of study for the school. 

Sect. 6. The trustees and principal shall pre- 
scribe and control the examinations for the 



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aclniission and graduation of pnpils, and the}' shall 
grant certificates of graduation to such as com- 
plete either course and pass the required examina- 
tions. 

Sect. 7. Tuition and graduation shall be free 
to all those completing either course of stud}" who 
will agree to teach in the public schools of this 
state for a period equal to the length of such 
course. The trustees shall make such provisions 
as may be necessary to effect the purposes of this 
section. 

Sect. 8. [As amended hjj chapter .59, Ses.'iioii 
Laics of 1903.] The sum of twenty-five thousand 
dollars is annually appropriated for the mainte- 
nance of the school, to be expended as the trus- 
tees shall direct. 

Sect. 9. The principal and teachers of the 
State Normal School shall assist and give instruc- 
tion at teachers' institutes, so far as they can 
without interfering with their duties in the nor- 
mal school, but they shall receive no additional 
compensation, except for travel and other actual 
and necessary expenses while so employed. 

Sect. 10. The superintendent of public instruc- 
tion, in his annual report, shall state the condition 
of the school, the terms of admission and gradua- 
tion, the times of the commencement and close of 
the sessions, and shall cause the same to be printed 
on the cover of the school register. 



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CHAPTER G4, SESSION LAWS OF 1891. 

An Act in relation to special school districts. 

Section 1. Whenever any school district or- 
ganized under a special act of the legislature shall 
vote to abolish such district and to unite with the 
town district, if said town district shall vote to 
receive said special district, if said special district 
has for the five years next preceding such vote 
maintained a high school, it shall be incumbent 
on the town district with which it unites to there- 
after keep and maintain within the limits of said 
specia,! district a high school for at least thirty 
four weeks in each year, and of equal grade to that 
which had been previously maintained therein by 
such special district, said high school to be open 
to all scholars in the town district, of suitable age 
and qualifications. 

Sect. 2. It shall be the duty of said town dis- 
trict to raise and appropriate each year thereafter 
sufficient money in addition to the school money 
which the town in which it is situated may raise, 
to properly maintain such high school, or schools, 
as may be established under the preceding sec- 
tion. 

Sect. 3. Any high school hereby established 
may be discontinued, or the location thereof 
changed, by the supreme court, on petition of tiie 
school board of the town district in which it is 
located, after such notice as the court may order, 
if it shall appear that the educational interests of 
the tovim district require such discontinuance or 
chanoe. 



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Sect. 4. Any town district failing to compl,y 
with tlie provisions of this act, or any of tiieni, 
sliall be fined for such neglect. 

Sect. 5. This act shall take effect on its pas- 
sage, and all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with 
this act are hereby repealed. 



CHAPTER 72, SESSION LAWS OF 1893. 

An Act to provide for annexing parts of towns 
to adjoining towns for school purposes. 

Section 1. Any person interested in severing 
part of any town tlierefroni and annexing it to 
another town, or school district therein, for school 
purposes, may apply therefor by petition to the 
selectmen of the town from which it is proposed 
to sever such territor}^, and to the selectmen of the 
town to which it is proposed to annex the same. 

Sect. 2. It shall be the duty of said selectmen, 
upon notice to such petitioners and to the school 
boards of the respective towns and school districts 
interested in the proposed transfer, to hear the 
parties, and determine whether the reasonable 
accommodation of such petitioners or others re- 
quires such transfer, and to make return of their 
findings to the clerks of their respective towns in 
writing within thirty days. 

Sect. 3. If a majorit^^of each of said boards of 
selectmen report in favor of such transfei", they 
shall sign a certificate of that fact, describing such 
territory, and stating that it is annexed to such 
adjoining town, or district therein for school pur- 
poses, which certificate shall be recorded by the 
town clerk of each town. 



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Sect. 4. Any territory now or hereafter an- 
nexed for school purposes to an adjoining town or 
school district therein, may, upon proceedings 
such as have been prescribed in the foregoing sec- 
tions of this act, be restored to the town or dis- 
trict from which it has been severed. 

Sect. 5. The annexation of territory under 
this "act shall have the same force and validity as 
if made by a special act of the legislature. 

Sect. 6. The selectmen and collector of any 
town to which part of any other town is now or 
may hei'eafter be annexed for school purposes 
shall have the same powers and duties in respect 
to such annexed territory, of furnishing blank 
inventories and of assessing and collecting taxes 
for school purposes, and the inhabitants and own- 
ers thereof shall for such purposes be subject to 
the same liabilities, as if such territory were in 
tlie town to Avhich it is or may be annexed. 

Sect. 7. [As amended hy chapter 75, Session 
Laws of 1895.] The selectmen of any town, and 
the school board of any high school or other spe- 
cial district in the same town, may, upon petition 
of persons interested, after notice to the school 
board of the town school district of such town, 
and after hearing the parties, unite parts of either 
district to the other, a majority of the board of 
selectmen and a majority of the school board of 
such special district, and a majority of the school 
board of the town school district concurring 
therein, and their decision in writing being re- 
corded on the town records. 

[Section 6 was amended by chapter 26 of the 
Session Laws of 1897, as follows : 



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Sp:ction 1. Section 6 of chapter 72 of the Ses- 
sion Laws of 1893 shall not apply to special 
districts, but only to town districts, and all special 
taxes voted by said districts shall be assessed and 
collected in the same maimer as they were 
assessed and collected prior to tlie enactment of 
said chapter 72.] 



CHAPTER 47, SESSION LAWS OF 1895. 

An Act in relation to the grouping of towns for 
the purpose of employing a superintendent of 
schools. 

Skction 1. Two or more towns or special dis- 
tricts may, by vote of each, form a district for the 
purpose of employing a superintendent of the 
public schools therein, who sliall perform in each 
town the duties prescribed by law and the regula- 
tions of the school boards. 

Sect. 2. Such superintendent shall be 
appointed by a joint committee composed of the 
school board of each of the towns in said district, 
who shall determine the relative amount of ser- 
vice to be performed by him in each toM'n, and 
shall fix his salary and apportion the amount 
thereof to be paid by the several towns, and certify 
such amount to the treasurer of each town. Said 
joint committee shall, for said purposes, be held 
to be the agents of each town composing such 
district. 



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CHAPTER 49, SESSION LAWS OF ]895. 

An Act to provide for the exaniiDatiou and certi- 
ficatioii of school teachers by the superintendent 
of public instruction. 

• Section 1. The superintendent of public in- 
struction shall cause to be held, at such convenient 
times and places as he may from time to time 
designate, public examinations of candidates for 
the position of teacher in the public schools of the 
state. Such examinations shall test the profes- 
sional as well as the scholastic abilities of candi- 
dates, and shall be conducted by such persons and 
in such manner as the superintendent of public 
instruction may from time to time designate. Due 
notice of the time, place, and other conditions of 
the examinations shall be given in such public 
manner as the superintendent of public instruc- 
tion may determine. 

Sect. 2. A certificate of qualifications shall be 
given to all carididates who pass satisfactory ex- 
aminations in 'such branches as are required by 
law to be taught, and who in other respects fulfill 
the requirements of the superintendent ; such cer- 
tificate shall be either probationary, or permanent, 
and .shall indicate the grade of school for which 
the person named in the certificate is qualified to 
teach. 

Sect. 3. A list of approved candidates shall be 
kept in the office of the department of public in- 
struction and copies of the same, with such in- 
formation as may be desired, shall be sent to school 
committees* upon their request. 

*School Boards. 



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Sect. 4. [As amended hy . chapter 12, Session 
Laws o/1899.] The certificates issued under the 
provisions of tliis act shall be accepted by school 
committees* in lieu of the personal examination 
required by section 6 of chapter 92 of the Public 
Statutes. 

Sect. 5. A sum not exceeding three hundred 
dollars may be annually expended from the income 
of institute fund for the necessary and contingent 
expenses of carrying out the provisions of this act. 



CHAPTER 46, SESSION LAWS OF 1895. 

An Act requiring truant officers or agents ap- 
pointed by the school boards of cities and 
towns to make an annual enuHieration of chil- 
dren between the ages of five and sixteen years. 
\_As amended hy chapter 86, Session Laios of 1903.] 

Section 1. Truant officers or agents appointed 
by school boards of cities and towns shall annually, 
in the month of Octobei', make an enumeration of 
the children of each sex, between the ages of five 
and sixteen years, in their town or city, giving 
such items in regard to each child as may be re- 
quired by the school board or the state superin- 
tendent of public instruction, and shall make a 
report to the scliool board thereof within fifteen 
days after the completion. 

Sect. 2. Section 14, chapter 43, Public Stat- 
utes, and any other acts inconsistent with this act, 
are hereby repealed. 



* Scliool Boards. 



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CHAPTER 14, SESSION LAWS OF 1897. 

An Act providing that certain sessions of the 
public schools shall be devoted to exercises of a 
patriotic nature. 

Section 1. In all the public schools of the 
state one session during the week in which Memo- 
rial Day falls, or a portion thereof, shall be de- 
voted to exercises of a patriotic nature. 



CHAPTER 65, SESSION LAWS OF 1897. 

An Act in addition to chapter 91 of the Public 
Statutes, in relation to schoolhouses. 

Section 1. The school board of cities shall 
have sole power to select and purchase land for 
schoolholl^e lots. When said board has secured, 
by vote of the city councils, an adequate appropri- 
ation for the purchase of a specified lot at a speci- 
fied price, then said board may make the purchase. 

Sect. 2. No schoolhouse shall be erected, 
altered, remodeled, or changed in any city school 
district, unless the plans thereof have been previ- 
ously submitted to the school board of that dis- 
trict and received its approval, and all new school- 
houses shall be constructed under the direction of 
a joint special committee, chosen in equal num- 
bers by the city councils and the school board. 

Sect. 3, Upon the completion of a new^ school- 
house, the city councils shall, by vote, transfer it 
to the care and control of the school board. When- 
ever a schoolhouse shall , no longer be needed for 



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public school purposes, the school hoard shall re- 
transfer its care and control to the city. 

Sect. 4. The provisions of the three preceding 
se*ctions shall not apply to the Union School Dis- 
trict of Concord, or to the Union School District 
in the citv of Keene. 



CHAPTER 44, SESSION LAWS OF 1897. 
An Act relating to shade trees. 

Section 1. AVhenever any party, at a proper 
time of the year, shall present to the selectmen of 
any town or ward well-grown nursery trees of the 
nut, shade, or ornamental varieties, such selectmen 
may set out said trees in the highways, cemeter- 
ies, commons, schoolhouse yards, and other public 
places, as indicated by the donor of said trees, and 
protect the same at the expense of the town. 

Sect. 2. Nothing in this act shall be construed 
to compel any party to have trees set in the high- 
v^ay on the side next his land without his consent. 



CHAPTER 77, SESSION LAWS OF 1899. 

An Act to ecpialize the school privileges of the 
cities and towns of the state. 

Section 1. Two or more towns or special dis- 
tricts, or their school boards when duly author- 
ized by their respective districts, may, by vote of 
each, form a supervisory district for the purpose 
of employing a superintendent of the public 
schools therein, who shall perform in each town 



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the duties prescribed by law and by the regula- 
tions ot" the school boards, giving thereto his 
entire time. 

Sect. 2. The school boards of the several dis- 
tricts forming the supervisory district shall con- 
stitute a joint committee which for all purposes of 
this act shall be the agent of each disti'ict therein 
represented. Said committee shall meet between 
April 1 and August 1 of each year, as may be 
agreed upon by the chairmen of the several boards, 
and organize by the choice of a chairman, a secre- 
tary, and a treasurer. It shall elect a superintend- 
ent for such supervisory district, determine the 
character and value of his services, and apportion 
the same among the several districts, certifying 
such apportionment to their respective treasurers. 

Sect. 3. [As amended by clicqiter 18, Session 
Lmvs of 1901.] Any town or special district 
which shall unite with one or more districts to 
form a supervisory district, which shall employ as 
superintendent, at an annual salary, a person hold- 
ing a permanent state teachers' certificate, and 
shall certify through its chairman and secretary 
such facts to the state treasurer, shall be entitled 
to one half its apportioned share of said salary, 
said sum to be paid by him in December of each 
year to the town treasurer of each town in said 
supervisory district, upon sworn statement of the 
state superintendent of public instruction certify- 
ing as to what amount each town is entitled. This 
section shall not apply to cities. 

Skct. 4. Supervisory districts formed under 
this act shall employ not fewer than twenty nor 
more than sixty teachers. 



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Sect. 5. Every scliool district in the state shall 
maintain its schools at least twenty weeks during 
every school year. 

Sect. 6. The sum of twenty-live thousand dol- 
lars ($25,000) shall be appropriated annually 
from the state treasury for the purj^oses of this 
act. Twenty-five per cent, of the entire appro- 
priation shall be set apart each year to carry into 
effect section three of this act. Any portion of 
the sum so set apart, and not expended as afore- 
said, shall remain in the state treasury, to be used 
in any subsequent year, if needed, to carry out 
the purposes of said section. The remainder 
shall be paid by the state treasurer in December 
of each year to all the towns of the state in which 
the equalized valuation is less than $3,000 for each 
child of the average attendance in the public 
schools of such towns during the school year next 
preceding, and such other towns as may be added 
as hereinafter provided on the sworn statement of 
the superintendent of public instruction certify- 
ing as to what amount each town is entitled, in 
direct propoition to said average attendance, and 
in inverse proportion to the equalized valuation 
per child, and shall be used exclusively for the 
support of the public schools. The governor and 
council may, upon recommendation of the super- 
intendent of public instruction, add to the class 
of towns specified above in this paragraph such 
other towns as may seem from their peculiar con- 
ditions to need relief from too great a burden of 
school tajiiition. 

Sect. 7. No town shall receive any benefit 
under this act nor any portion of the literary 



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fund unless its returns have been made to the 
superintendent of public instruction as I'equired 
by chapter 92, section 13, of the Public Statutes, 
nor u*nless its schools have been maintained at 
least twenty weeks during the school year next 
preceding. 

[Chapter SI, Session Laws of 1901, in amendment 
of chapter 77, Session Laws of 1899.] 

Section 1. Any town or special district 
which has united, or may hereafter unite, with 
any other town or towns, district or districts, to 
form a supervisory district, as provided by chap- 
ter 77 of the Laws of 1899, may, at any annual 
school district meeting, by vote, rescind such 
action, and thereupon shall, at the end of the 
school year or at the expiration of the period for 
which such supervisory district may then already 
have contracted for the services of a superintend- 
ent, cease to be a part of such supervisory dis- 
trict. 



CHAPTER 112, SESSION LAWS OF 1901. 

An Act to establish evening schools. 

Section 1. Upon petition of five per cent, of 
the legal voters of any city or town having more 
than five thousand inhabitants, according to the 
latest United States census, said city or town 
shall establish and maintain, in addition to the 
schools required by the law to be maintained 
therein, evening schools for the instruction of 



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persons over fourteen years of age in such branches 
of learning and art as the school board shall 
deem expedient. 

Skct. 2. The school board of such cities and 
towns shall have the same superintendence over 
such evening schools as they have over other 
schools, and may determine the term or terms of 
time in each year and the hours of the evening 
during which such schools shall be kept, and may 
make such regulations as to attendance at such 
schools as they may deem expedient. 

Sect. 8. Nothing contained in this act shall 
exempt any person from the requirements of chap- 
ter 93 of the Public Statutes. 



CHAPTER 96, SESSION LAWS OF 1901. 

An Act relating to high schools. 

Section 1. [As ajiiended by Chapter 118, Ses- 
sion Laws of 1903.] Any town not maintaining 
a high school or school of corresponding grade 
shall pay for the tuition of any child who with 
parents or guardian resides in said town and who 
attends a high school or academy in the same or 
another town or city in this state, and the parent 
or guardian of such child shall notify the school 
board of the district in which he resides of the 
high school or academy which he has determined 
to attend, provided, hoirecer, that no town shall be 
liable for tuition of a child in any school, in excess 
of the average cost per child of instruction for 
the regularly employed teachers of that school 



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and the cost of text-books, supplies, and appara- 
tus during the school year preceding, nor, in any 
case, shall the town be liable for tuition of any 
child in excess of forty dollars per year. 

Sect. 2. If any town in which a high school 
or school of corresponding grade is not main- 
tained neglects or refuses to pay for tuition as 
provided in the preceding section, such town shall 
be liable therefor to the parent or guardian of the 
child furnished with such tuition, if the parent or 
guardian has paid the same, or to the town or city 
furnishing the same in an action of contract. 

Sect. 3. Five thousand dollars shall be appro- 
priated annually from the state treasury for the 
payment of tuition in high schools and academies, 
to be paid by the state ti-easurer in the month of 
December of each year to the treasurers of such 
towns as are entitled, and in such manner as is 
hereinafter provided, upon a sworn certificate of 
the superintendent of public instruction of the 
sums due. 

Towns whose rate of taxation for school pur- 
poses in any year is $3.50 or more on $1,000, and 
whose average rate of taxation for all purposes 
for five years next preceding is $16.50 or more 
on $1,000, shall receive a share of said appropria- 
tion as follows : 

If the tax rate is from $16.50 to $17.49, one 
tenth of the tuition paid. 

If the tax rate is from $17.50 to $18.49, two 
tenths of the tuition paid. 

If the tax rate is from $18.50 to $19.49, three 
tenths of the tuition paid. 



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If the tax late is from $19.50 to .|20.49, four 
teiitlis of the tuition paid. 

If the tax rate is from $20.50 to $21.49, live tenths 
of tlie tuition paid. 

If the tax rate is from $21.50 to $22.49, six 
tenths of the tuition paid. 

If the tax rate is from $22.50 to $23.49, seven 
tenths of the tuition paid. 

If the tax rate is from |23.50 to $24.49, eiglit 
tenths of the tuition paid. 

If the tax rate is from $24.50 to $25.49, nine 
tenths of the tuition paid. 

Over $25.49, the whole of such tuition. 

If more tlian $5,000 should be needed in any 
year for the purposes of this act, the said $5,000 
shall be distributed pro rata to the towns entitled 
to receive the same, in accordance with the fore- 
going classification. 

Skct. 4. [As amended hy Chapters 31 and 
118, Session Laics o/ 1903.] By the term "high 
school" or "academy," as used in this act, is 
understood a school having at least one four 
years' course properly equipped and teaching such 
subjects as are required for admission to college, 
technical school, and normal school, including 
reasonable instruction in the constitution of the 
United States and in the constitution of New 
Hampshire, such high school or academy to be 
approved by the state superintendent of public 
instruction as complying with the requirements of 
this section. And said superintendent is author- 
ized to approve a school maintaining any part of 
such course, for the part so maintained. 



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Sect. 5. Towns paying tuition of scholars in 
higli schools or academies shall receive a propor- 
tionate share of the literary fund for the attend- 
ance of such pupils. All academies and private 
schools shall be furnished with copies of the school 
register, and shall make an annual statistical re- 
port to the state superintendent. 

Sect. 6. [_As amended hy Chapter 118, Session 
LaiDs: of 1903.] Any school district ma}^ make 
contracts with an academy located within its 
limits for furnishing instruction to its scholars ; 
and such school district may raise and appropriate 
money to carry into effect any contracts in rela- 
tion thereto, and in case such appropriation is not 
less in amount that the average cost of instruc- 
tion of each pupil in such academy during the 
year preceding, for each pupil of said district 
qualified to enter upon a high school course, then 
said academy shall be deemed a high school uuxin- 
tained by such district, if approved by the super- 
intendent of public instruction in accordance with 
section 4 of this act. 



CHAPTER 11, SESSION LAWS OF 1899. 
An Act relating to holidays. 

Section 1. Thanksgiving day and Fast day, 
whenever* appointed ; Labor day; the day on 
which the biennial elections are held ; the twenty- 
second day of February ; the thirtieth day of May ; 
the fourth day of July, and Christnias day shall 
be legal holidays, and when either of the last four 
days mentioned occurs on Sunday, the following 
day shall be observed as a holiday. 



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CHAPTER 43, PUBLIC STATUTES. 

An Act relating to the duties of townclerks. 

Skct. 3. Every town clerk, within thirty days 
after the annual meeting, shall report to state 
oificers the names and postoffice addresses of town 
officers as follows to the state superintend- 
ent of public instruction, those of the local 
school board. . . .Any town clerk who neglects to 
make reports as required by this section shall be 
subject to pay a fine of twenty dollars for each 
failure, one half for the use of the department to 
which he fails to report, and the other half for 
the use of the town. 



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INDEX. 



Pase 

Academies, contract with districts '. 11, 61 

Age (see Legal age). 

Alcoholic stimulants 28 

Annual meetings, when holden 16 

Appropriations from state 56 

Auditors, district 18, 20 

Board (school), compensation of 34 

number of members 18 

how chosen 19 

term of otHce 19 

penalty for neglect of duties 6, 29, 32 

to make returns 
to state super- 
intendent 55 

to file report with 

selectmen 30 

scholars dismissed by 35 

text-books and supplies loaned by.. . . 29 

sold by 29 

introduced by, not to fa- 
vor sect or party 30 

to convey scholars 27 

to dismiss teachers, when 27 

to furnish registers 30 

tQ hire teachers 27 

to hold examination of teachers 28 

to issue certificates 28 

teachers allowed to attend institiites, 

by 33 

to make annual report 30, 31 

regulations 28 

repairs 27 

to prescribe studies 28 

to send notices to parents 38 

to provide fuel 27 

schools 27 

supplies 29 

text-books 29 

to appoint truant officers 32 

to visit schools 30 

vacancies in, how filled 20 

By-law, district 35 



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Certificates forteacliers 29, 51, 52 

of pupil's attendance in private schools. 39 

Clieck-list 17 

Children, certificates furnished to,,\vlien 37, 38 

employment of, regulated 38 

enumeration of, by truant officer, when. . . 52 

to be sent to scliool 38 

penalty for neglect 39 

Cleric, district, how chosen 19 

duty 19, 20 

vacancy, how filled 20 

town 62 

Compulsorj' attendance 39 

Concord, special district of, act of 1897 not applicable 

to 54 

Constitution of New Hampshire, when read 28 

the United States, when read 28 

District clerk, regulations recorded by 27 

meetings, where held IG 

annual 15 

when held 15 

special 16 

how warned 16 

officers 18 

Districts, academies may contract with 11 

by-laws concerning truants, adopted by 36 

dissolution of 12, 47 

high schools maintained in 11, 47 

joint, how to share money 12 

legally organized 9 

money hired by, when payable 10 

raised for purposes of 10 

new invoice of property made in, Avhen 10 

non-resident taxes assessed in 10 

rights in property after dissolution 12 

selectmen assess tax for payment of monej' 

hired by 10 

scholars admitted from other towns to 11 

schools maintained jointly by 11 

special, abolished how 47 

powei'S of 9 

property liable to taxation in 10 

what constitutes 9 

may appropriate money for superintend- 
ents..., 21 

Dog tax, when used for srhool purposes 8 

Employment of children 37 

Enumeration of children. 52 



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Evening schools 57 

Examinations of teachers hy school hoards 29 

superintendent of puh- 

„, lie instruction 51 

1* Jags on every schoolhouse 29 

Guardian and ward, where taxed 6 

High schools 11, 47, 49 

definition of '58 

tuition shall he paid hy town, when 59 

tuition shall be paid by state, when 60 

Holidays, what are 61 

Houses (school), ho-v located 22 

district, bound by committee, how 

far 22 

school board to locate, when 22 

county commissioners to locate, 

when 23 

county commissioners, notice of 

hearing by 23 

county commissioners, hearing 

when, by 23 

county commissioners, fees of 23 

county commissioners, vacancies in, 

how filled 23 

appeal pending and effect of 24 

location conclusive, how long 24 

lots, how enlarged 24 

selectmen to appraise land damages 24 

to build and repair, when 25 
appeal by landowner to supreme 

court 24 

schools shall be kept in 25 

used for what other purposes 25 

repairs, how made 25 

land, school hoards of cities to select 53 

transferred by city councils to board 53 
of cities, constructed under joint 

special committee 53 

Industrial school, truants committed to 36 

Institutes (teachers'), how organized 43 

how paid for 43 

teachers may attend 34 

Keene, special district of, act of 1897 not applicable to 54 

Legal school age 36 

Literary fund, what termed 7 

how distributed 7 

how expended 7 

unincorporated places not to receive.. 7 



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Literary fund, misapplication of 8 

districts when not to receive 56 

IManufacturing- establishments, children employed 

in, when 37 

establishments, owner, agent of. em- 
ploying children contrary to law, 

penalty for 39 

Mechanical (see Manufacturing). 
Mercantile (see ISIanufacturing). 

Meetings, annual 15 

district 15 

special, when and where holden 15, 16 

warrants of 16, 17 

Memorial Day, observance of 53 

Minimum school year 56 

Moderator, how chosen 19 

power and duty 19 

Money, assessment for school purposes 5 

additional 6 

appropriation of 6 

assessment of, penalty for neglect 6 

districts may hire 10 

raise, for what purposes 10 

hired, selectmen assess tax for payment of — 10 

dog tax 8 

literary fund 7,8 

neglect to apply 7 

Normal school, annual appropriation for 46 

admission to and graduation from. . . 45 

instruction in ; session 45 

courses of study 45 

principal, how appointed 45 

powers and duties of 45 

trustees, appointment of 45 

organization of 45 

expenses of 45 

meetings of 45 

tenure of office 45 

admission to, in school registers 46 

Notice to parents and guardians 40 

Officers of school district, what 18 

eligibility to office 18, 19 

how chosen, and for how 

long 19 

tenure of office 18 

auditors, duties of 20 

clerk, duties of 19 

moderator 19 



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Officers of school districts, treasurer, duties of 20 

special school districts 18 

Parents and guardians, penalty for neglect to send 

children to school 39 

Parochial schools, scholars to be vaccinated . ..."'."'"' 35 

Physiology and hygiene 28 

Private schools, certificates of attendance upon, 

when issued 41 

„ , , , . scholars to be vaccinated 35 

Records of dissolved districts 11 

Registers (school) furnished by state ...'.'.".'. 42 

to be distributed by school board. . . 30 

properly kept by teachers 30 

„ , . , used in private schools, when 41 

Regulations, to be prescribed by school board 27 

recorded by clerk 27 

Scholars to attend where 35 

dismissed, when 35 

unless vaccinated, not to attend 35 

how admitted from outside districts. ... ' " 11 

attending without right ; penalty 35 

Schoolhouses (see Houses). 
School board (see Board). 
School districts (see Districts). 

disturbance of, how punished 36 

day, established 34 

week " " 3 j^ 

month ''/'' 34 

year, minimum .'.".' 57 

School money (see Money). ' •••,-•• 

Selectmen shall assess 5 

debt .V... .... 10 

may make invoice 10 

district clerk to report to 19 

may fill vacancies in school board 21 

school board to file reports with 30 

may act in severing and annexing parts of 

towns for school purposes 47 49 

Session Laws of 1791, chapter 64 12' 47 

1893, chapter 72 '.'.'.".'.".'. "' 48 

1895, chapters 35, 36 .* ." 42 

1895, chapter 36 '" 44 

1895, cliapter 46 ,[[ 52 

1895, chapter 47 21 50 

1895, chapter 48 '21 

1895, chapter 49 ,[ 51 

1895, chapter 50 " 28 

1895, chapters 40, 50 .'. . 29 



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Session laws of 1895, chapter 50 30 

1895, chapter 51 27 

1895, chapter 62 41 

1895, chapter 75 49 

1895, chapter 83 » 5 

1895, chapter 97 17 

1897, chapter 14 53 

1897, chapter 44 54 

1897, chapter 65 22, 53 

1897, chapter 69 19 

1899, chapter 11 61 

1899, chapter 12 52 

1899, chapter 70 32 

1899, chapter 77 21, 54 

1899, chapter 84 36 

1901, chapter 18 35, 55 

1901, chapter 51 44 

1901, chapter 61 37, 38, 39, 40, 55 

1901, chapter 81 57 

1901, chapter 91 5 

1901, chapter 96 58 

1901, chapter 112 57 

1903, chapter 3 45 

1903, chapter 5 31 

1903, chapter 13 39 

1903, chapter 29 34 

1903, chapter 31 v — 28 

1903, chapter 33 42 

1903, chapter 59 46 

1903, chapter 86 52 

1903, chapter 118 58, 61 

Special districts, how dissolved 12, 47 

hig'h school in 47 

trust funds of 14 

clieck-list 17 

meetinyrs, when holden 16 

State appropriation for school purposes, how appor- 
tioned to towns 56 

State treasurer to distribute literary fund 7 

pay state appropriation 56 

Superintendent of schools, district may reqiiire 

school board to appoint 21 

Superintendent of schools, duties 21 

Superintendent of schools, towns may unite in em- 
ploying 50 

Superintendent of supervisory district, how ap- 
pointed 55 



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Superintendent of supervisory district must hold 

state certiticate -k 

Superintendent of supervisory district must'giVe en- 
^ tire time ^ ^_ 

^l,^.^?^^*^®"^^?^'^ ^^ supervisory distVict; state' to ' pay 

nait the salary, vv lien nf. 

Siiperintendent of supervisory district/appropriation 

Superintendent of 'pubiicYiistruction'; ^^ 

Appointment of .« 

Term of office 42 

Form of register prescri bed "by ! ! .' ." ! .' 42 

Documents distributed by . 42 

bchool boards' returns prescribe'd by'.-l 42 

1 o make investigations 42 

Appropriation for clerical expenses for .' ." 44 

10 make biennial report .... 40 

Biennial report of, to contain what .■.■.'." 43 

10 lecture in towns, when 40 

1 eachers' institutes organized by 4^ 

lo appoint substitute, when 40 

Institute fund paid by treasurer to " .' 44 

Account audited jt 

<i„^oi®"'"^^ J^P^?"*^ o^"' sent to schoolbbards! '.'.'.'. 44 

Supervisory districts authorized. 56 

Tax, amountof ^^^ber of teachers limited;:::: 57 

assessment of ^ 

1 ext-books and supplies f um'ished'f ree. :::::::::::"" 29 

^ . to be sold at cost. .....: 30 

.„ , not sectarian ■■" oX 

i eachers examined by school boards 27 

notpaid after dismissal.... 27 

to attend institutes, when q4 

to hll registers as required : : : : : : : : : : : : : 30 

PYc.nii„at,-^., I ^penalty for f^iVure 30 
^nnlnv^Vf^i ^^}^ certihcation by state 

superintendent ci 

certificates issued to, when'. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. '. ". : '. ', \ [ \ \ [ 51 
by state, accepted by 

. ^. , local board 52 

,w?^^^?^*^?"^ (state), expenses how paid. . . 52 

institutes, how supported.. 4-? 

1 own may raise money ^ 

Town clerk to report to state superiiitende'iit : : 62 

penalty tor neglect ho 

Towns, parts of, may be annexed 48 

annexed, restored when: ::::::::::::: 49 



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Treasurer, district 18 

how chosen 19 

to give bond 20 

his duties 20 

vacancy, how filled 21 

Trees, ornamental and shade, presented to town 54 

Truants, how punished.. 36 

tine remitted, when 36 

Truant laws, to he sent to whom 40 

officers, compensation of 32 

duties of 32 

school hoards to appoint 32 

Trust funds of special districts 14 

Unincorporated places to receive literary fund, 

when 7 

penalty for misapplying 8 

Vacancies in school district officers 8, 21 

Vaccination 35 

Voters, who 17 

check-list of 17 

penalty illegal 18 

Ward, where taxed 6 

Warrants of meetings 8, 17 



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